On parenting, family, and life in general!

Time to update

Well, our first 2 weeks (just about) of parenting has been an adventure, but it’s been a lot of fun! Just learning about Hannah’s personality and what she does to signal different things has been neat, but stressful too. We discovered that the breastfeeding was just not working for us, so we switched her to formula, and now she is thriving wonderfully – she’s already surpassed her birth weight, after hitting a low of 7 lbs 12 oz the Friday after she was born. As of this past Thursday (the 31st) she is up to 8 lbs 7 oz. She has her next check up this coming Thursday.Hannah is able to sleep up to a 4 1/2 hour stretch at night, but usually it’s about 3 hours between feedings. Fortunately, we can do that three times in a row, so I still end up with about 8 hours of sleep when all is said and done.Today we took her to church for the first time, and we got all sorts of compliments on her from people we didn’t even know. It was a great feeling! She was excellent at mass too, she slept through half of it, woke up to eat, then just hung out quietly until it ended. Then she fell back asleep! She’s napping now in preparation for her first Super Bowl. She’s all dressed and ready for it – she’s got on her little Patriots teeshirt, and she has a cap she can wear too, but it’s miles to big for her.Things with me are going fine too. I feel pretty good (though slightly sleep deprived), and have been healing nicely from the birth. John is doing well too. He went back to work this past Monday, and will have his vacation in about 3 weeks. My mom’s sister and her husband are in town from Texas this week, and they will be coming over to meet Hannah on Thursday, which is exciting.Anyway, other than that, I just have some new photos of Hannah to post:This is Hannah in her Pack ‘N’ Play under a quilt made for her by Mary Lynn.